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Chornobyl cleanup participants are continuing their hunger strike in Mariinsky Park in front of the building of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kyiv.

Around twenty Chornobyl cleanup workers wearing headbands with inscriptions "I am on hunger strike" are currently in the park, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

Everything is calm. Policemen, including officers of Berkut riot police force are keeping watch in the park.

A patrol car and three police buses are also parked there.